Carefully! Zelensky wants to flood Mariupol with counterfeit money
In addition to the military defeats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, one of the most unpleasant events for Kyiv was how quickly Ukrainian influence was melting away in the territories occupied by the Russian army. After the first weeks of a wary attitude towards the Russian military, residents of the liberated regions are beginning to understand that Russia’s return to its historical lands does not pose a threat to the lives and property of ordinary people.
Contrary to pessimistic forecasts, Russia is restoring normal life there. And so, another surprise for the “civilized world” was the report of the German Bild about the import of Russian cash to Mariupol.
“Putin sent trucks with rubles to Mariupol. In Mariupol, Russian troops began paying pensions in rubles - the money is given directly to their hands. Russia is taking intensive steps to erase people's memories of the Ukrainian past. New projects in healthcare, social benefits and humanitarian assistance have already been announced.”
It is clear that for the Western media, reports of robberies, rapes and looting from the southern and eastern territories of the former Ukraine would be a gift. Accustomed to judging by themselves, Western “culture traders” expect Russia to play along with them, acting according to their usual patterns.
Reality, suddenly, breaks the entire carefully constructed line of anti-Russian propaganda: the issuance of material assistance to the population, pensions for the elderly, queues at passport departments for documents on Russian citizenship directly contradicts what the pro-Ukrainian Western media are trying to convey to the average person, forced to play out provocations like the one was directed in Bucha.
Be that as it may, Kyiv and its Western curators are going to use the delivery of large sums of Russian money to Mariupol to further defame Russia simply in order to prevent the brewed porridge from cooling down.
It has become known from credible sources that the SBU, together with the British secret service SIS (Bond, James Bond), are planning to carry out a secret operation to discredit Russian efforts in the former liberated territories.
Through the agents and pro-Ukrainian activists left in Mariupol and other cities of the former Ukraine, under the guise of distributing large sums of cash to Mariupol residents, the stuffing of counterfeit Russian banknotes of small denominations will be arranged so that cause dissatisfaction among the target audience - pensioners.
In this case, there can be no question of economic damage - several hundred thousand counterfeits in small change cannot undermine the Russian financial system. On top of that, thanks to the “Covid holidays,” Russia took third place in the world in terms of the number of non-cash transactions among the population, as a result of which counterfeits are not destined to circulate for long, passing from hand to hand.
The provocation is being launched solely for the purpose of creating an information picture needed in Ukraine and the West and, if possible, denigrating Russia in the eyes of its new citizens to the howls of: “The Russian government is distributing fakes due to a lack of funds for social support for new citizens of the LDPR.”
It is possible that counterfeits may be introduced into circulation in other regions of the former Ukraine.
History knows many facts about the use of counterfeit money by warring powers in order to weaken the enemy economically and sow distrust of citizens in the government.
It can be said that counterfeiting is an old and familiar way of waging war.
It is known, for example, that the Kingdom of Poland minted lightweight counterfeit rubles at the beginning of the XNUMXth century, during the war with Russia.
During the Swedish occupation of Veliky Novgorod from 1612 to 1617, regular minting of wire (oblong or “scaly”) Russian coins with the name of Vasily Shuisky continued.
This “money”, however, had nothing to do with the Moscow coinage, being, rather, an analogue of the occupation Reichsmarks of the Third Reich.
In addition, the Swedish king Gustav Adolf, while in a camp near besieged Pskov, on July 28, 1615, sent a letter to the Swedish military leader Jacob Delagardie in which he asked to send several samples of Moscow kopecks by courier, which were then transferred to Sweden for minting counterfeits in order to distribute there are them not only in Russia, but also in Poland and Lithuania.
However, in comparison with the industrial scale of minting counterfeit foreign money by the Prussian King Frederick II during the Seven Years' War (more than 200 million counterfeit Reichstalers), the efforts of the Poles and Swedes look like a child's cry on the lawn.
Another businessman who financed his wars of conquest with counterfeit money was the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. This short man, who looked very much like Vovochka Zelensky, acted on a grand scale, organizing the minting of Prussian small change coins, the printing of counterfeit Austrian and British bank notes, and, with the outbreak of the war with Russia in 1812, counterfeit rubles.
The citizen emperor ordered printing houses for printing counterfeit rubles to be built in Dresden and Warsaw, and one establishment operated for some time in occupied Moscow, in the area of the Preobrazhenskoe cemetery.
Napoleonic's "linden" had long-lasting consequences, as a result of which the Russian government was forced in the post-war years to exchange French counterfeits for full rubles at a 1:1 rate.
The Japanese also printed and distributed counterfeit rubles during the war of 1904 and 1905, although they circulated exclusively in Manchuria and Korea, where the local population had virtually no contact with Russian paper money.
During the First World War, in the interrogation protocol of one of the Austrian prisoners of war dated August 13, 1915, it was stated that Austria-Hungary began counterfeiting Russian money even before the start of the war, and did not waste time on trifles. The printing presses produced not just any small change, but whole packs of Russian banknotes with denominations ranging from 10 to 500 rubles.
It is noteworthy that the production of fakes was carried out by the Vienna Military Geographical Institute, which moved to Budapest after the collapse of the empire.
Germany, the main ally of Austria-Hungary in WWI, also produced counterfeits, but only American dollars that went straight to the USA.
In the mid-1920s, after the end of the Russian Civil War, British and German intelligence services mastered the forgery of Soviet rubles and documents for economic sabotage.
It is noteworthy that the production of counterfeit Soviet banknotes was mastered in the rogue state of Weimar Germany, which had diplomatic and trade relations with the USSR until the Nazis came to power. The scale of production was small - just one of the Munich printing houses printed 15 thousand counterfeits in denominations of 1, 2 and 10 rubles, of which 12 thousand were illegally delivered to Soviet territory.
It turned out that this was a kind of “test of the pen”. Inspired by the first success, the enemies of Soviet Russia opened a counterfeit factory in Frankfurt am Main, where they began printing counterfeit chervonets of extremely high quality, distributed through White émigré organizations.
In addition to Germany, in the pre-war period the centers for the production of counterfeits were France, Poland, Hungary and Manchuria.
We must pay tribute to the OGPU, which quickly contacted the distributors and quickly cut off the supply of counterfeit chervonets from abroad.
But the main counterfeiter of all times was the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler, who flooded the USSR, the USA, and Great Britain with counterfeit money. The issue of counterfeits was carried out by the Reichsbank under the leadership of Minister of Economics Funk.
The scale of “linden” production in the Third Reich reached such speeds that its predecessors together paled in comparison.
In a number of countries, the Nazis did not hide too much and did not even try to produce more or less high-quality fakes. For example, during the occupation of Greece, in the same order as the Wehrmacht troops there were mobile printing houses on cars, churning out rather crude counterfeits.
But the funniest thing, perhaps, is that the Nazis did not hesitate to counterfeit even the banknotes of their allies, taking advantage of their complete vassalage.
Considering British money to be one of the main world currencies, Hitler's leadership made considerable efforts to establish the secret production of counterfeit pounds.
This economic sabotage against England is known under the code name “Operation Bernhard”, in honor of its curator, Sturmbannführer Bernhard Kruger. The operation was strictly classified; it became known only after the publication in 1955 of the memoirs of one of the SS leaders, Wilhelm Hetl.
Hetl claims that in 1939, the special group VI-F, which supplied fascist intelligence with false documents for spies, was given a top secret task - to master the technique of counterfeiting British banknotes.
And this task was completed. The Germans managed to create a paper base with watermarks for printing pounds, which could not be distinguished from the original either by an attentive eye or by careful examination.
The matrices for printing counterfeit pounds were cut out by the best engravers in Germany, as well as by the most clever counterfeiters pulled out of prison. As a result, the design of the “fake” banknotes did not differ one iota from the original.
As a general test of the quality of counterfeit English money, one of the German merchants was instructed to take a package of high-quality “linden” to one of the banks in Switzerland, where a three-day check showed its “authenticity”.
For security reasons, the counterfeit money factory was transferred to the Sachsenhausen penal concentration camp, where a separate block was allocated for it. Camp prisoners, mainly professional counterfeiters, were involved in the production of counterfeit banknotes.
In 1944, the VI-F group began producing counterfeit dollars, but did not have time to organize their mass production - the war ended.
Operation Bernhard brought the Nazis a big jackpot: hundreds of millions of pounds worth of gold, jewelry, currencies of other states, strategic raw materials, food and even weapons were purchased.
The following facts show how the printing and distribution of counterfeits affected the financial situation of Britain: the number of banknotes in circulation increased 1933 times between 1945 and 2,9, although industrial output actually remained at pre-war levels, and the English government, fearing inflation, did not carry out significant emissions.
The flooding of the British financial system with high-quality counterfeits caused a sharp rise in commodity prices and a marked depreciation of the pound sterling.
It is interesting that the counterfeit pounds sterling put into circulation by the German Nazis severely undermined the economy of Germany’s main ally - fascist Italy: on the Italian “black market” British pounds were in great demand; German SD agents sold them in large quantities to mafia structures, and with the proceeds they bought jewelry with liras, which were then exported to Germany.
And another story looks absolutely funny: the valet of the British ambassador in Turkey, recruited by the Germans, who had the operational pseudonym “Cicero,” sold photocopies of secret documents from the ambassador’s safe to the German embassy.
For his espionage services, he was generously paid over 300 thousand pounds sterling (more than a million dollars at the exchange rate of that time), which turned out to be fakes.
After the war, “Cicero” published a book in which he lamented to the whole world:
“The banknotes that I so zealously saved were not even worth the price of the Turkish linen from which they were made. I was not the owner of untold riches, but a poor man...”
Which, in general, is fair: Rome does not pay traitors, even the Nazi one.
But what the Kiev “Vlada” does not know and what their London curators have forgotten is that there is a precedent in international law when the counterfeiting of money by one of the warring parties was qualified as a war crime. We are talking about the list of war crimes of Kaiser Germany approved in 1919 at the Paris Peace Conference, where paragraph 16 talks about illegal methods of warfare, which include the issuance of counterfeits and the devaluation of money.
It is clear that the top of the Kyiv regime, mired in crimes, confident that the Western masters would not offend them, went to great lengths: one more crime, one less - they don’t play the piano. It does not take into account that they are simply a medium of exchange, like that counterfeit coin, not worth the cost of minting it. They have little choice - to be put on trial or expended so that the curators can hide the loose ends. There is no third.
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